--- title: Jimmy Fallon : Stranger things Cast Barb Late Night video description: Barb returns to Stranger Things on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. canonical: https://time.com/4475821/jimmy-fallon-stranger-things-barb/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-01T14:53:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:06.966Z og:title: Watch Angry Barb Return to Stranger Things With a Vengeance og:description: She says everything you couldn't og:url: https://time.com/4475821/jimmy-fallon-stranger-things-barb/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3d7df7c57d36625/6988a487e20a872d33a923e7/gettyimages-598126658.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Angry Barb Return to Stranger Things With a Vengeance twitter:description: She says everything you couldn't twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3d7df7c57d36625/6988a487e20a872d33a923e7/gettyimages-598126658.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Barb Return to _Stranger Things_ With a Vengeance on _The Tonight Show_ > Sponsored content. 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Miles as Barb and Jimmy Fallon as Steve Harrington during the "Stranger Things" parody on August 31, 2016 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) NBC-NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Sep 1, 2016 2:53 PM UTC [Barb Holland](http://time.com/4437552/stranger-things-barb-nicole/) returns from The Upside Down in a hilarious _Tonight Show_ sketch starring the [_Stranger Things_](http://time.com/4474656/stranger-things-kids-cast-photos/) kids Wednesday night. Finn Wolfhard (Mike), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin) and Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas), all play their indifferent characters so well it could be a deleted scene. Except this one had Fallon, forever your [idiot boyfriend](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7iQWqHEG6A), as a convincing Steve Harrington. Speaking for everyone who took issue with the fact that the show treated [missing Barb](http://time.com/4426157/10-questions-stranger-things-still-needs-to-answer/) like she was a fallen penny not worth picking up, Barb (A.D. Miles) makes the kids pay with a curse-filled rant. “No search party for Barb! No fake corpse stuffed with cotton for Barb!” she screams. But she’s only alive because she traded places with Hawkins, V.I.K. (very important kid,) Will Byers. Happily, not only does the late night host do Barb justice, he does the show justice with the satire it deserved. Hilariously, Eleven is too freaked out to enjoy the nerdy games, and even in an extreme situation, Dustin is still correcting people. 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